Josh's 2012

[peterb]

Great seedlings and great growing. I had never heard of that Strombocactus before.

peterb

[Tony]

Everything looks great, but your seedlings are amazing!

[promethean_spark]

S. siedelii is supposed to be more columnar in habit than S. disciformis. It'll be many years before I find out, even at the relatively fast rate of growth I get in my propagator. They seem considerably darker green than my other strombos too.

[promethean_spark]

Sulcorebutia raushii 'cherry bomb'


Sulcorebutia tarabucoensis R66



Ortegocactus



Escobaria minima



Trichocereus lobovoides


Soon: Tephrocactus geometricus


Avonia seedlings


Peak bloom in the garden

[Arjen]

great looking flowers overall, including the garden shot!
I love your sulco's!

[iann]

Look at all those Tephrocactus buds

[promethean_spark]

It hasn't grown a new cladode in 2 years now, just puts all it's energy into flowers. I may have to de-articulate it if it keeps that up. This guy seems particularly floriferous, could be why DJF319 is always in stock at mesagarden. Unfortunately it's the only one I have of flowering size, it's got little siblings a few years away yet.

The sulco fruit is a cross pollenation from S. raushii (green form), since it happened to have a flower up at the same time. It'll be interesting to see what the offspring are like. Hopefully next year I'll get some purebred R66 seed.

[promethean_spark]

Saw this in the greenhouse today, guess it's harvest time!

All better!


Also got a few seed from my Turbinicarpus valdezianus, it's the only turb of flowering size I have so it must be self fertile!

[promethean_spark]

First bloom: Echinocereus reichenbachii caespitosus



Another flush out of the ortegocacti:


And my third Sulcorebutia tarabucoensis produced - can't wait until these guys are bigger!


Opuntia basilaris also was doing it's thing. Wish they'd all open at once rather than in series... But it'll be blooming for a few weeks.


Opuntia humifusa is also flowering. Wheat and tritacale in the background. These are fun to grow in CA, almost as easy as O. humifusa!

[Arjen]

lovely flowers!

[gemhunter178]

Nice show! I like how the flower "covers" the plant in the first picture!

[Minime8484]

Amazing plants and blooms - what a wonderful yard too!

[promethean_spark]

Flower season is winding down, but the seedlings are coming along nicely.

Blossfeldia 'rio icla'


Geohintonia


Strombocactus 'esperanzae'


Blossfeldia formosa

The last is about 21 months, the rest are 9 months. I think the Blossfeldia formosa may flower in a year or so!

These slow growers tend to sit in a corner of the propagator for a couple years, but are relatively undemanding.

[gemhunter178]

Your seedlings look nice and healthy! I sometimes wish that these "blobs" would grow faster....

[promethean_spark]

There's always pereskiopsis for that, but I'd have to open the bag to do it. I may well graft a few when I do get around to opening the bags, certainly easier on 4-5mm plants than 1mm plants.